India's sporting stars praised the Indian Air Force after the air-strike across the Line of Control.

India carried out "non-military, pre-emptive air strikes" across the Line of Control early this morning to target the terror group Jaish-e-Mohammed. Twelve Mirage 2000 fighter jets dropped 1,000 kg bombs on the camp at Balakot. Following the news, sports pensonalties including Sachin Tendulkar, Gautam Gambhir, Mahesh Bhupathi, Saina Nehwal and others took to Twitter to praise the Indian Air Force (IAF) for the pre-dawn air strikes, which took place nearly two weeks after 40 soldiers were killed in a terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama on February 14.

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I salute the IAF, Jai Hind

India struck the biggest camp of the Jaish-e-Mohammed and a "very large number" of terrorists were eliminated, said Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale.

"There was very credible intelligence info that JeM (Jaish-e-Mohammed) was planning to carry out terror strikes across India, thereby making this strike absolutely necessary. It was a non-military, pre-emptive strike. India has decided to take action against any terror threat to it," the Foreign Secretary said.

"Credible intelligence was received that Jaish-e-Mohammed was attempting another suicide terror attack in various parts of the country and fidayeen jihadis (suicide bombers) were being trained for this purpose," the Foreign Secretary said.

Speaking on the issue India skipper Virat Kohli, on Saturday, had said that he and his team will completely stand by whatever decision the government and the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) take in regards to playing Pakistan.